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I've been to most of these cities and it surprises me the Asian ones aren't higher up. I absolutely felt safer in Singapore and Tokyo than Toronto. I'm also

• JimDabell 3y ago
  If you read the report, that chart seems to combine inputs (effort expended) and outputs (results observed), and when you look at just the results, Singapore is top and several Asian cities are similar. The report says: > As with other pillars, personal security inputs and outputs have a high level of statistical correlation. Within this context, some individual cases differ markedly. On personal security outputs, Singapore scores an average of 97.3, markedly ahead of second place Copenhagen (92.7) and well over the index average (67.2). At the same time, it finishes in 40th place on inputs (51.7), falling below the average (57.3). Although the most extreme case, several other Asian cities, notably Tokyo, Osaka, Seoul and Taipei, have much lower input than output scores.